Hello Pete, ehm peat. Soft sweet smoke rising from the glass. Licorice, bayleaf, fat eels being smoked over oak shavings just a few yards over. The alcohol stings the nose a bit though.

Taste

Hello! Oily, leather, chalk of something en a sit load of alcohol. Letting it roll over the tongue and there come the rest of th flavours. Licorice, cloves, leather. Tastes a bit bitter, but there is a sweetness to it. Is het coughdrops or something?

Finish

The bitterness lingers on the tongue and as it passes down the throte the sweetness is there bordering on sickly sweet. And then at the end the tobacco kicks in for real and is there to stay. Old sigars and the chewing tobacco of grand uncle Auke...

Peated, woody, something vegetal (the fumes ascending from dried silage grass after heavy rainfall). It becomes sweeter after airing for a while. Sherry tones coming forward, walnuts. Becomes less vegetal with a drop of water; more eucalyptus.

Taste

Sharp. Really sharp. Having a cold doesn't really help here… Some sherry tones (blackcurrant, figs), bit of wood, smoke (the licking-an-ashtray-kind-of-smoke), and I get some citrusy tones as well.

Finish

Prickly at the tip and sides of the tongue, becoming salty. Slowly retreating to the back of the mouth; lingering and lingering.

Comments

Not my taste of whisky… Not balanced and too vegetal for me; I guessed it was a Laphroaig. Tasted during a blind tasting competition in May/June 2017.